Hugh Levon Butler

Kansas City Police Department — Kansas City, MO

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch February 2, 1968

Age 29

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 119

Incident

Patrolman Hugh Butler was shot and killed after he and his partner responded to a tavern at 3502 Troost Street to investigate a report of a man with a gun. When they arrived at the tavern, they were met with gunfire and exchanged fire with the gunman. Patrolman Butler was killed, his partner was wounded, and the gunman was seriously wounded. Four days later, it was determined that Patrolman Butler's partner had accidentally shot him. Patrolman Butler was a United States Army veteran and had served with the Kansas City Police Department for four years.

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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Butler gave the Kansas City Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Kansas City community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Kansas City Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Kansas City, MO

Platform Identity kcpd.jackson.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 2, 1968

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Age 29

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Hugh Levon Butler served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Hugh Levon Butler is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In MO, 237 of 813 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 29.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Kansas City Police Department, 47 of 120 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.2% of this agency's fallen.

Kansas City Police Department

of 120 officers

39.2% Accident

MO — Statewide

237

of 813 officers

29.2% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident